1. Research in Medical Informatics Class 2

2. Agenda 3:00-3:10 Announcements 3:10-3:25 Technical Literature Searches 3:25-3:35 Scenario Exercise 3:35-3:50 Medical Literature Searches

3. Announcements Google Group Laptops Friday

4. Where are we? Topics in Medical Informatics Techniques for MI Research Synthesis Paper Final Project Performance Support Systems Assistive Technology Emergency Response Medical Records (HER,PHR) Information Systems & Standards Stationary Ubiquitous Interdisc. Research Ethics (IRB) Interviewing Prototyping Data Analysis Ethnography

5. Why read the literature? Increase the likelihood someone will care about your work –Not duplicate an already known result –In early stages of research, many approaches are taken –After a while, one approach wins out –The approach becomes the paradigm; people stop asking if it is the correct answer –The original question is forgotten/irrelevant; Solution is applied to other areas A year of hard work can save a week of reading! Edited from T. Veldhuizen; Waterloo U. http://kanushu.uwaterloo.ca/~tveldhui/tools.html

6. Caveats when reading the literature Do not necessarily accept the prevailing wisdom unquestioningly and not search for alternative ideas/answers (It has already been solved…next paper) The writer may be crusty - you are the new deal that could address this problem from a fresh prospective Edited from T. Veldhuizen; Waterloo U. http://kanushu.uwaterloo.ca/~tveldhui/tools.html …a certain naïveté, unburdened by conventional wisdom, can sometimes be a positive asset. Harish-Chandra (Cole Prize in Algebra, 1954)

7. Caveats when reading the literature Balance enlightenment and ignorance to create original work Edited from T. Veldhuizen; Waterloo U. http://kanushu.uwaterloo.ca/~tveldhui/tools.html Strategy: 1.Brainstorm as many possible ideas, methods, solutions as you can. 2.Evaluate each solution and flesh out the most promising. 3.The brainstorming and evaluation gives you ideas for keywords to search for (most searches fail because people do not know what keywords to use) 4.Then do a literature search. 5.Do not get discouraged!

8. What is a new idea? Edited from T. Veldhuizen; Waterloo U. http://kanushu.uwaterloo.ca/~tveldhui/tools.html Computer science literature as of 2005 has approximately 2,000,000 publications (depending on how you count) “Nobody has done this before” are not falsifiable Unless your idea/theorem/approach did not exist 10 years ago, you should assume the problem has been tackled and attempt to do it differently, better, etc.

9. The key to most searches… Lots of money to join associations Part of a university/large library system How to access university material remotely? VPN http://www.colorado.edu/its/vpn/

10. CS Literature Pecking Order Journal Paper Conference Paper Workshop Paper Technical Report Tutorial Handbook PapersSurvey Papers Textbooks Importance Hi Lo * * Where CS differs from most fields

11. Idea Research Structure Idea Research Invisible College Conference Preprints Personal Website Proceedings Journal Articles Indexes, Abstracts Monographs Reviews Handbooks, Encyclopedias, Textbooks Grey Literature Primary Literature Secondary Literature Tertiary Literature Edited from J. Parrott; Waterloo U. http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/usered/grad/researchskills/flow_of_info.html

12. What to search? Need to have background so you know What questions to ask What terms to search for Things to look for Key papers (weights provided by Google Scholar, CiteSeer) E.g., Charting Past, Present, and Future - Google Scholar Key researchers (DBLP is good for this) E.g., G. Abowd Things to create Citation graph Backward bibliography search Forward bibliography search Ask around

13. http://kanushu.uwaterloo.ca/~tveldhui/tools.html We would substitute CHI/CSCW/C&C/DIS/DUX/ MobiCom/Pervasive/Persuasive/Perva sive Healthcare/UbiHealth/HealthNet/JAM IA here

14. Brainstorm Exercise Scenario Think of this scenario... You have a meeting with Patty Brennan, Ph.D., a nurse researcher at the University of Wisconsin Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. What can you find out about her? Where did you find it? –What are her research interests? –What papers has she published recently? –Where did she publish those papers?

15. Difficult part about medical informatics research… Medical researchers most likely do not post their publications on their websites Medical researchers may not have a website They publish in different venues…

16. Medical Literature Pecking Order Journal Paper Conference Paper Workshop Paper Technical Report Tutorial Handbook Papers Survey Papers Textbooks Importance Hi Lo Topic Books

17. How to solve this problem… Google them (standard answer) –Do they have a personal website? –Are they associated with a group/university/etc.? Is there a publication site associated with that group? Find out what their interests are Identify papers that may be of interest to you and get the papers… –Full reference? If not, google to find full reference –Google the paper - someone may have it out there for free (probably not) –Go to the library http://libraries.colorado.edu/http://libraries.colorado.edu/ –Select Find E-Journals –Use reference to find paper (pdf papers are the best)

18. Alternative sites that help… PubMed - National Library of Medicine Site –http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association –http://www.jamia.org/http://www.jamia.org/ BioInfoBank Library –http://lib.bioinfo.pl/

19. Help! The library does not have the journal/book/etc.! Get the complete reference Go to the Interlibrary Loan Site http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/ill/expanding.htm http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/ill/expanding.htm Wait 2 days - 8 weeks… (depends on request) E.g., Mobile Applications that Empower People to Monitor their Personal Health. Kay H. Connelly, Anne M. Faber, Yvonne Rogers, Katie A. Siek, and Tammy Toscos. In Springer e&i, 123(4):124, 2006. ISSN: 0932-383X (gedruckte Version); ISSN: 1613-7620 (elektronische Version) http://www.ove.at/medien/eui/aktuell.htm http://www.springer.com/west/home/springerwiennewyork/computer+sci ence?SGWID=4-40631-70-1086776-0

20. Great - I found the literature… now what? You can write a survey paper… You can start a new project… You can organize your references… –LaTeX BibTeX –Bib2html –BibDesk –Word EndNote Bookends (Mac) – takes BibTeX & RIS –Citeulike –RefWorks –http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/how/refworks.htm –Endnote to BibTeX http://libraries.mit.edu/help/endnote/endnotelatexfaq.html#3 –BibTeX to Endnote http://www.clib-jena.mpg.de/main/endnote/endnote_latex_en.htm?mp=18 Blurbs come in handy here

21. Looking forward Week 1: Friday – Bring laptops for information searches\ Topic Selection Due: August 31 Topic Assignment Out: September 1 Week 2: Pervasive Healthcare September 1 NO CLASS – Labor Day Quiz: September 3 Week 3: Assistive Technologies Week 4: Qualitative Field Methods September 17 NO CLASS – Field Exercises